YOU might think that, as it’s bye week, our coaching staff would give the players some time off to recharge their batteries before we start preparing for our next game, against the Dragons at Kogarah on Sunday week.

Far from it.

We’re still working as hard as ever to achieve our goals, both individually and as a group.

And this week in particular, we’ve been pushing ourselves to the limit with a series of strength and fitness tests.

On Monday we were in the gym where our strength-and-conditioning coach, Luke Portese, was delighted with the results.

Usually we do most of our heavy lifting in the pre-season, then once the season is under way, we revert to a modified program that allows us to recover between games.

So it is not always easy to maintain maximum strength, but the numbers we racked up on Monday were encouraging for everyone.